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Lot# 3118 - Auction 284 - 290

  • Lot# : 3118 Barbados

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    Recess by Perkins Bacon 1852/55: (½ d.) deep green on blued paper, a superb horizontal pair with large margins all round and of fine colour, used on 1854 cover to Bridgetown tied by "11" numeral obliterators of St. Lucy Parish. Reverse with miss-set single ring datestamp of despatch "AU L / 1854 / Δ" in black with inverted '7' for '4' and single ring Bridgetown arrival "AU 4 / 1854 / 1" in black. Overall mathematical doodling on the envleope but an enormously rare inland first issue cover. Cert. BPA (2020).
    Starting bid : 1,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 3,800 CHF